"I was just reading the apple discussion thread about the dim video problems and one user said that he discovered that his vga adapter wouldn't seat properly in the dvi connector on the mini due to the pins on the dvi side of the adapter not fitting properly. He said he solved this by trimming the pins on the adapter's dvi side resulting in a good connection of the analog vga pins and better video quality.
Perhaps if this is the root of the dark video problem then all that is needed is a slight adjustment to the positioning of the dvi connector on the back of the mini to make it easier to seat the pins on the vga side...
Here is a link to the . apple forum postings.
-Anthony M."_________________1.25GHz Mac Mini / 1.8GHz iMac G5 / 2.0GHz C2D Mac mini (2009)
4GB iPod mini / 2G iPod shuffle / 16GB iPhone 3G
Apple TV 2
iLife's a Bitch!

We at www.MacImPott.de have seen this problem some weeks ago and nobody listened - the the german computer magazin c´ t said the output is below VESA Standard and nobody listened. Now a lot macminis are sold and shipped and now the people are listening.

Maybe because the switchers see the big difference between their pc-vga-crt and the macmini dvi-vga -crt.

Hope that Apple will fix it at soon as possible.

btw my powerbook with a dvi/vga adapter makes the same awful picture on a crt. seems to be a bigger problem